{"id":3047,"date":"2014-12-15T15:40:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:40:19","slug":"degrowth-the-book-david-bollier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"Degrowth, the Book | David Bollier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bollier.org\/blog\/degrowth-book\">Degrowth, the Book | David Bollier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">In industrialized societies, where so many people regard economic growth as the essence of human progress, the idea of deliberately rejecting growth is seen as insane.\u00a0 Yet that is more or less what the planet\u2019s ecosystems are saying right now about the world economy. It\u2019s also the message of an expanding movement, Degrowth, that is particularly strong in Europe and the global South.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">A few months ago I\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/bollier.org\/blog\/4th-international-degrowth-conference-new-convergences\">b<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 237px; height: 357px; float: left; margin: 1px; border: 1px solid initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/bollier.org\/sites\/default\/files\/u6\/Screen%20Shot%202014-12-12%20at%2012.03.03%20PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"357\" \/>logged\u00a0<\/a>about the massive Degrowth conference in Leipzig, Germany, that attracted 3,000 people from around the world. The basic point of the discussions was how to get beyond the fetish of growth, intellectually and practically, and how to transform our idea of \u201cthe economy\u201d so that it incorporates such important values as democracy, social well-being and ecological limits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Several of the movement\u2019s leading figures have now released a rich anthology of essays,<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/vocabulary.degrowth.org\/\"><em>Degrowth:\u00a0 A Vocabulary for a New Era<\/em><\/a>(Routledge). It is the first English language book to comprehensively survey the burgeoning literature on degrowth.\u00a0 More about the book on<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/vocabulary\/degrowth.org\">its website<\/a>\u00a0and<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/110013401\">\u00a0an amusing three-minute video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The editors &#8212; Giacomo D\u2019Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgios Kallis \u2013 are three scholars at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and members of the group\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.degrowth.org\/\">Research &amp; Degrowth.<\/a>\u00a0The editors describe degrowth as \u201ca rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.\u201d\u00a0 The basic idea is to find new ways to achieve \u201cthe democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Here\u2019s how the book jacket describes the volume:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"OLE_LINK1\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degrowth, the Book | David Bollier. In industrialized societies, where so many people regard economic growth as the essence of human progress, the idea of deliberately rejecting growth is seen as insane.\u00a0 Yet that is more or less what the planet\u2019s ecosystems are saying right now about the world economy. It\u2019s also the message of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[162,203,391,1944,1945],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-consumption","tag-degrowth","tag-growth","tag-industrialization","tag-industrialized-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}